Survey Questions
1. What is your gender?
a. Male
b. Female
2. What is your standing in school?
a. First year/Freshman
b. Second year/Sophomore
c. Third year/Junior
d. Fourth year/Senior
e. Fifth year +
f. Graduate Student
3. What is your major?
Open-ended response.
4. What is your estimated GPA? (Optional)
a. 4.1 or above
b. 3.6-4.0
c. 3.1-3.5
d. 2.6-3.0
e. 2.1-2.5
f. 2.0 or below
5. How many textbooks do you typically need per quarter?
a. 0
b. 1-3
c. 4-6
d. 7-10
e. 10+
6. What is your preferred method of obtaining your course textbooks?
a. Buy online (Amazon, eBay, etc.)
b. Rent online (Chegg, etc.)
c. Buy in the campus bookstore
d. Rent from the campus bookstore
e. Download to an eReader (iPad, Kindle, etc.)
f. I do not buy or rent textbooks
g. Other: ______________
7. What motivates the decision to obtain your textbooks?
a. Price value of books
b. Convenience
c. Immediacy of acquiring textbook
d. Looking forward to selling back the textbook
e. Looking forward to not having to keep the textbook
f. Looking forward to keeping the textbook
g. Other:_______________
8. When do you obtain your textbooks?
a. Weeks before classes begin
b. The week of classes beginning
c. Not until the textbook is needed for the class
d. I do not buy or rent textbooks
9. Overall, how satisfied are you with the way in which you obtain your textbooks?
a. Not satisfied at all
b. Somewhat dissatisfied
c. Neutral
d. Somewhat satisfied
e. Very satisfied
10. Why do you obtain your textbooks the way you do?
Open-ended response.